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If I'm not mistaken, an action for defamation of character would lie against half-a-dozen of them. Mutimer was unfortunately deficient in sense of humour. He continued to scowl, and merely said: 'Go on; what happened? Mr. Keene allowed the evening's proceedings to lose nothing in his narration.
The furniture's just as you left it; I dare say you'd feel it like going home again. 'They've gone, have they? Mrs. Mutimer asked, as if unwilling to show the interest which this proposal had excited in her. 'Yes, they went more than a month ago. We put Mrs. Chattaway in just to keep the place in order. I look on the house as yours. You might let Mrs.
If he fell into the hands of the mob he was done for; Mutimer knew that, and was ready to fight for his life. But the direction taken by the main current of the crowd favoured him. In about twenty minutes he was swept away from the Green, and into a street. There were now fewer foes about him; he saw an opportunity, and together with Redgrave burst away.
Speak a word of impudence to me and I'll knock half your teeth out! He was capable of doing it. 'Arry got to his morning meal in silence. In the course of the morning Mr. Keene called. Mutimer received him in the dining-room, and they smoked together. Their talk was of the meetings to be held in the evening.
Mutimer had even nourished the hope that something might happen before that day to allow of Adela's appearing not merely in the character of a guest, but, as it were, ex officio. By this time he had resolutely forbidden his eyes to stray to the right hand or the left, and kept them directed with hungry, relentless steadiness straight along the path of his desires.
He pronounced the word 'clerk' as it is spelt; it made him seem yet more ignoble. 'Have you given up drink? No answer 'Before I try to help you, said Mutimer, 'you'll have to take the pledge. 'All right! 'Arry muttered. Then a thought occurred to Richard. Bidding his brother stay where he was, he went in search of Adela and found her in an upper room.
Isn't it dreadfully awkward? 'You think he wouldn't like to meet Mr. Mutimer? asked Letty, savouring the gravity of the situation. 'I'm sure he wouldn't. He spoke about him yesterday. Of course he didn't say anything against Mr. Mutimer, but I could tell from his way of speaking. And then it's quite natural, isn't it? I'm really afraid. He'll think it so unkind of me.
'I feel as if I were going to have a fever, she said to Stella in the drawing-room. She could not help uttering the words, but laughed immediately. 'Your hand is really very hot, Stella replied. Mutimer had a cab at the door, and was waiting in the hall. 'You're a long time, was his greeting, with more impatience than he had ever used to her.
Rendal, foolishly joking in his cups, had urged as extenuation of his own weakness the well-known fact that 'Arry Mutimer had been seen one evening unmistakably intoxicated in the street of Wanley village. Someone reported these words to Richard, and from that moment it was all over with the Rendals.
Mutimer was still absent, but he appeared in five minutes; as unsuccessful as herself. She told him of her visit to the station. 'I must keep going about, he said. 'She can't be far off; her strength, surely, wouldn't take her far. Adela felt for him profoundly; for once he had not a thought of himself, his distress was absorbing.
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